BILL NUMBER: SCR 90	CHAPTERED  08/25/00

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   115
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   AUGUST 25, 2000
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 23, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   AUGUST 10, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Chesbro

                        AUGUST 9, 2000

   Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 90--Relative to Local Health
Center Week.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 90, Chesbro.  Local Health Center Week.
   This measure would proclaim the week of August 20 to August 26,
2000, as Local Health Center Week in Mendocino and Lake Counties.




   WHEREAS, A significant number of citizens in Mendocino and Lake
Counties are currently medically underserved due to geographical
isolation, financial barriers, and an insufficient number of health
care providers; and
   WHEREAS, The Mendocino Community Health Clinic is a private,
nonprofit corporation that provides high quality, comprehensive
primary health care to medically underserved citizens of Mendocino
and Lake Counties; and
   WHEREAS, The Mendocino Community Health Clinic has made great
strides in improving the quality of health care services in Mendocino
and Lake Counties by maintaining a high standard of accountability
to patients, demonstrating cost-effectiveness, encouraging the
community to develop needed health care programs, increasing
opportunities for children and families to receive health care, and
providing quality health care services in accessible, low-cost
environments; and
   WHEREAS, The Mendocino Community Health Clinic has also improved
the quality of health care services in Mendocino and Lake Counties by
increasing the availability of quality health care services that are
provided by trained professionals, promoting individual autonomy
regarding health choices and enhancing health consciousness in the
community, and offering high quality primary preventative health
care, thereby reducing preventable deaths, costly disabilities, and
communicable diseases; and
   WHEREAS, Community health care clinics like the Mendocino
Community Health Clinic help end health care disparities and promote
primary care coverage for all Californians; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby proclaims the week of
August 20 to August 26, 2000, as Local Health Center Week in
Mendocino and Lake Counties; and be it further
   Resolved, That the important contributions of the Mendocino
Community Health Clinic that improve the quality of life in citizens
of Mendocino and Lake Counties are hereby recognized; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit a copy of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
